Indexation of British War Pensions (Disability Pensions)
Purpose | The purpose of this Departmental Instruction is to advise of processing arrangements for the manual indexation of British War Pensions. |
War pensions to increase | The British Government has advised that British War Pensions will rise from 7 April 2020. The British Government has published their rates chart at: |
Effective date and payday | The effective date for the variation will be Tuesday 7 April 2020, for payday 23 April 2020. |
Cases affected | These changes will affect the following cases:
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Exchange rate for EATS and composite cases | The exchange rate to use for EATS and composite cases (DP paid by Australia on behalf of the UK) is £1 = A$1.8699. These cases are now subject to the daily exchange rate variation of plus or minus 2.5%. For further information refer to DI-04-2020. |
Exchange rate for British DP paid direct from the UK | The exchange rate to use for British DP paid direct from the UK is £1 = A$1.8699. This is the same exchange rate used for British Official Public Service and Armed Forces Pensions. |
Rates charts in Australian dollars and AIS reports | British war pension rates converted to $A at both old and new rates have been e-mailed to the Income Support Management group along with the AIS report. EATS and composite cases have been provided to the Rehabilitation Compensation & Systems Support Group. |
Manual examination | No cases will be processed automatically. All cases will be listed for manual examination and updated in PIPS. |
Contact officer | The Income Support contact officers for this exercise are Jennifer Payne (x470392) and Caitlin Frost (x483374) |
Janice Silby
Assistant Secretary
Income Support Branch
27 March 2020